FCM151: How to Avoid Making Cultural Mistakes & Create More Diverse + Inclusive Fitness Spaces with Portia Boston

One of the hopes that we through this podcast aside from
providing you with high quality education to help you go further
in your career, is to lead the way toward seeing positive changes
develop in the fitness industry, so that it can become a more
inclusive and welcoming place for people of all shapes and sizes,
ages, genders, sexual orientation, and races.


 


Let’s be real. There’s no denying that the industry is structured
to represent and serve predominantly white people. The bodies
that are represented as the aspirational fitness ideal are slim,
young, able-bodied, and white. Many of the largest fitness
franchises are built in neighborhoods that are 70-80% white.
We’ve heard countless BIPOC clients and trainers alike tell
stories how they’ve struggled to get jobs at studios and gyms, or
how they’ve felt uncomfortable going into fitness studios because
their identity isn’t fully supported.


 


That’s why in this episode today, we’re going to be specifically
talking about some of the micro-aggressions that we can all
recognize and change to make our industry a more inclusive place
for everyone- such as Digital Blackface, mis-steps in our music
choices, mis-steps in marketing language, and more.